Casual sex, hard drinking and bribery: Disgrace of Chinese official after diary is leaked on to the internet

The scandalous diary of a medium-level Chinese official has spread like wildfire after being posted on the internet.

Han Feng, a director of the tobacco monopoly bureau in southern Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, details a life of sex, hard drinking and bribery.

Han has already stepped down from his post, according to China Daily.

'The diaries are not groundless rumours,' said Liao Hongxiu, the head of the bureau.

Chinese sauce: Han Feng, left, has stepped down after his Twitter-style diary was leaked on to the internet. In it he details an encounter with Tan Shanfang, right

The office was now investigating whether Han violated laws and Communist Party rules, the official Xinhua news agency reported.

THE HIGHLIGHTS OF MR HAN'S BUSY YEAR

September 16, 2007: Wang
asked me for lunch at the Guijing Hotel. There were just the two of us.
He gave me two bottles of Moutai liquor and 50,000 yuan (£5,000). I
deposited 30,000 yuan and took 20,000 home.

September 18:
21-32C, sunny – Morning in the 'living quarters' – Afternoon: go to
hotel & asked for a room, Ms Long is coming – had red wine at
dinner – go to GuoDa hotel, Xiao Tan is there, her menstruation is
coming…

September 20: When I got to the office this afternoon, Chen stopped by and gave me 10,000 yuan. Li gave me 2,000 yuan.

December 4: Drank too much & Xiao Pai too, I asked her to come to my room...

December 11:
Evening, dinner with Mr Wang & Mr Hu, Commissar of the local Land
Bureau – We decided to pay 5,000,000 yuan (about £500,000) application
fee and they will give us the land… Then we drank a lot!

December 29:
2007 has been a good year. Work is going smoothly. Income is as high as
200,000 yuan Womanising is on the right track. It's been a lucky year
with women. I need to pay attention to my health with so many sex
partners.

January 25, 2008:
Award meeting. We obtained the 'advanced citizen' award status as a
unit… which means I get my salary and bonus increased to 250,000 this
year.

China's ruling party has railed against corruption for years, seeking to counter public anger over regular reports of graft, excess and debauchery among officials, and saying such behaviour threatens the party's legitimacy.

The alleged diaries were first posted on Saturday on a popular Internet forum by a man who claimed Han had an affair with his wife, the China Daily said.

The man said he was posting the entries as revenge, but did not say how he obtained the documents.

Over a year-long period up to January 2008, the entries describe regular feasts and excessive drinking five days a week, usually with police, local government officials and tobacco company directors.

Han says he received payments ranging from 2,000 yuan (£200) to 100,000 yuan (£10,000), and offers details of sexual relationships with five female colleagues.

The case marks the latest instance of an official being forced to step down after allegations of excess appeared on the Internet.

A housing official in the eastern city of Nanjing was jailed for 11 years after Internet users posted photos of him driving a Cadillac, smoking luxury cigarettes and wearing a 14,000-dollar watch.

A local chief prosecutor in the northern Inner Mongolia region resigned after web users accused her of driving a 115,000-dollar sport utility vehicle.

The controversial diary was still available on China’s tightly controlled Internet, despite the seamy revelations.

Communist officials often cite corruption as one of the greatest threats to social stability and their continued ability to rule and there are frequent high-profile crackdowns.

The spectacular account comes just as the government is trying to focus attention on the annual two-week meeting of the National People’s Congress, when some 4,000 delegates descend onto Beijing for the largely rubber stamp legislative session.

Official propaganda goes into overdrive projecting an image of a democratic-minded, corruption-fighting, transparent government.